AMERICAN EDEN: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

Tells the spellbinding story of the charismatic and wildly inventive New Yorker Dr. David Hosack (1769-1835), who set out to put his burgeoning metropolis on the scientific and cultural maps. Johnson offers both an intimate personal drama and a sweeping political and environmental history of the early Republic. Color illus.